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Van Wild is a Southern Blues-Rock-Pop musical project by half Canadian, half American singer-songwriter Yasmine Van Wilt. The debut EP "Van Wild" is a mix of catchy love, social observation and protest songs that are inspired by Southern landscapes and folklore. Lead Van Wild EP single "Cherry Tree" reached #26 on the MediaBase Indie Label charts in April 2015 and can now be heard on BDS & MediaBase stations throughout the U.S. and Europe. The associated music video is on more than 150 TV stations globally and is on the playlists of American Eagle, Steve Madden, The Four Seasons, Caesar's Palace, Macy's & more!
The follow-up single "Hey Old Man" is already on radios internationally and will hit mainstream American radios in late spring 2015. Sophomore EP Into The Wild was produced at 1092 Studios by Matt Gordon and features Third Man Records multi-instrumentalist Dominic John Davis and drummer Daru Jones. It also feature Kurt Ozan, lead guitarist for Jana Kramer.
In January Van Wild was a selected as a Semi-FInalist for the Belk Southern Artist Showcase and performed for ReverbNation and the media at Nashville's 12th & Porter. Numerous TV & radio live recordings are forthcoming, so stayed tuned!
Yasmine's previous projects have reached #7 in the UK Music Week Charts, beating out Rihanna and Justin Bieber. The associated music videos also generated consistent play on major UK music TV channels. In 2013, EU funding allowed her to perform at a number of European cities. She has been awarded by numerous organisations including Disney. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, is a published author and a classically trained actress and performance artist. Her work has been staged across the globe to critical acclaim.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marshall Chapman has been making records for longer than most of today’s indie rockers have been alive. Songs I Can’t Live Without is her 14th release, her eighth on TallGirl Records.

Recording an album of classics had always been on Chapman’s bucket list. “The songs I write have always been so personal,” Chapman says. “I needed a break. I was getting tired of living myself into a corner, just so I could write myself out.” 

Songs I Can’t Live Without begins with Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song,” which Chapman sings for the first time while recording it, and ends with “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” the first song she remembers singing as a child. In between are classics by Otis Blackwell, Goffin/King, J.J. Cale, Bob Seger, and even Chet Baker. 

Her songs have been recorded by everyone from Emmylou Harris and Joe Cocker to Irma Thomas and Jimmy Buffett. (Click here for a complete list.)

In 2010, Chapman landing her first movie role, playing Gwyneth Paltrow’s road manager in Country Strong. While filming the movie, her musical Good Ol’ Girls (adapted from the fiction of Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle, featuring songs by Matraca Berg and Marshall) opened off-Broadway. That fall, Chapman simultaneously released a book (They Came to Nashville) and CD (Big Lonesome). They Came to Nashville was nominated for the 2011 SIBA Book Award for nonfiction, and the Philadelphia Inquirer named Big Lonesome “Best Country/Roots Album of 2010.”

Of her three rockin’ albums for Epic, the Al Kooper-produced Jaded Virgin was voted Record of the Year (1978) by Stereo Review. Her album, It’s About Time… (Island, 1995), recorded live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women, drew rave reviews from Time, USA Today and the Village Voice.

Marshall’s first book, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller (St. Martin’s Press) was a SIBA bestseller, 2004 SIBA Book Award finalist, and one of three finalists for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. The book is now in its third printing.

Her second book, They Came To Nashville (Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Hall of Fame)is based on interviews with music icons Chapman has known since her 1967  arrival over the last 50years. She asks Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Miranda Lambert and others the same first question: what was your first night in Nashville like? And from then on, each interview is spontaneous, soulful, revealing, and unique.

Marshall is a contributing editor to Garden & Gun and Nashville Arts Magazine. She has also written for The Oxford American, Southern Living, W, Performing Songwriter, and The Bob Edwards Show (Sirius/XM). But music, she says, “is my first and last love.”

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